When John M. McKinney was born in March 1845, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Joseph McKinney, was 43 and his mother, Lydia Bell, was 36. He married Nancy L Woodard on 20 January 1876, in Yancey, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Ivy Township, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States for about 50 years. He died on 23 January 1914, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Democrat, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cionaodha or Mac Cionaoith ‘son of ç’, an early Gaelic personal name popular from the ninth century and possibly derived from Pictish.
Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinnigh ‘son of Coinneach’, an Old Irish personal name, borne by a Christian saint and Anglicized in Ireland as Canice, which was treated in Scotland as equivalent to Kenneth . This surname was usually Anglicized in Scotland as McKenzie , but is otherwise hard to distinguish from sense 1 above.
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